diff --git a/srcpkgs/pcre/pcre-devel.template b/srcpkgs/pcre/pcre-devel.template
index 63789cb0709..d02a2803329 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/pcre/pcre-devel.template
+++ b/srcpkgs/pcre/pcre-devel.template
@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@ long_desc="${long_desc}
 
  This package contains files for development, headers, static libs, etc."
 
-revision=1
-
 Add_dependency run zlib-devel
 Add_dependency run bzip2-devel
 Add_dependency run pcre
@@ -15,12 +13,15 @@ do_install()
 {
 	mkdir -p ${DESTDIR}/usr/bin
 	mkdir -p ${DESTDIR}/usr/lib
-	mkdir -p ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/man
+	mkdir -p ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/man/man1
 
 	mv ${SRCPKGDESTDIR}/usr/bin/pcre-config ${DESTDIR}/usr/bin
 	mv ${SRCPKGDESTDIR}/usr/include ${DESTDIR}/usr
 	mv ${SRCPKGDESTDIR}/usr/lib/*.*a ${DESTDIR}/usr/lib
 	mv ${SRCPKGDESTDIR}/usr/lib/*.so ${DESTDIR}/usr/lib
 	mv ${SRCPKGDESTDIR}/usr/lib/pkgconfig ${DESTDIR}/usr/lib
+	mv ${SRCPKGDESTDIR}/usr/share/man/man1/pcre-config.1 \
+		${DESTDIR}/usr/share/man/man1
 	mv ${SRCPKGDESTDIR}/usr/share/man/man3 ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/man
+	mv ${SRCPKGDESTDIR}/usr/share/doc ${DESTDIR}/usr/share
 }
diff --git a/srcpkgs/pcre/template b/srcpkgs/pcre/template
index 5d798a21b27..71341b15bd2 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/pcre/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/pcre/template
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 # Template file for 'pcre'
 pkgname=pcre
-version=7.9
-revision=2
+version=8.01
 distfiles="$SOURCEFORGE_SITE/pcre/$pkgname-$version.tar.bz2"
 build_style=gnu_configure
 configure_args="--enable-utf8 --enable-unicode-properties
@@ -9,7 +8,7 @@ configure_args="--enable-utf8 --enable-unicode-properties
  --enable-newline-is-anycrlf"
 short_desc="Perl Compatible Regular Expressions"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
-checksum=40a13a9759f1de5b16bc2f0d47b6aa5f0ec010325646922f54b013c040dcd740
+checksum=3a0f6a592b78448ab9afc57e7a087fba1b7657c6467f7037946a96caa3ce10da
 long_desc="
  The PCRE library is a set of functions that implement regular expression
  pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics as Perl 5. PCRE